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Maureen Benson
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Eyes On Whiteness
The Safehouse of Neutrality: How Institutions Protect White Supremacy
Mini-series Part 2: The Safehouse of NeutralityIn this episode, Maureen continues the deep dive into how whiteness shape-shifts—this time through the soft power of institutional neutrality.From school boards banning books to nonprofits redirecting equity funds, neutrality is used as a strategy, not a stance. With help from Audre Lorde and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maureen explores how whiteness hides inside “objectivity,” “professionalism,” and “donor comfort”—shielding itself from critique while punishing disruption.We also return to the film Sinners, where vampires can’t feed unless invited in—a sharp metaphor for how institutions dra...
2025-07-28
23 min
Eyes On Whiteness
When Fascism Rebrands — Elon Musk and the Aesthetics of Whiteness
Mini-series Whiteness is Shape-ShiftingPt. 1: When Fascism Rebrands — Elon Musk and the Aesthetics of Whiteness In this episode, Maureen dives into the shape-shifting nature of whiteness—how it survives by mutating into rebellion, reason, and innovation. She takes us into the political spectacle surrounding Elon Musk’s “America Party,” his tech-fueled propaganda, and the cultural silence that followed his Nazi salute on a presidential stage.Drawing on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and Ruha Benjamin, Maureen traces how whiteness adapts—selling domination through calm logic, clean design, and “free spe...
2025-07-14
19 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Leading Without Ego: Nonjudgment as a Tool for Clarity and Collective Power
In this episode, Maureen dives into the powerful practice of nonjudgment—not as a soft alternative to accountability, but as a path to clarity, discernment, and principled leadership. She unpacks how judgment (especially internalized) can cloud our ability to lead with integrity, and how nonjudgment offers a way to pause, inquire, and root critique in care.Through a close look at the recent New York City mayoral primary, we examine how progressive candidates modeled nonjudgment in action—setting aside ego, embracing strategic alignment, and practicing principled critique. Maureen also shares a personal reflection on the ways shame and...
2025-07-01
27 min
Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 289 Today's Peep Really Bites- Sound Bites of a Bygone Era Pt. 1- Clean vs Cursing: An Audio Experiment in Podcast Preferences, Happy Birthday June Lockhart and a Beautiful June Song from Holly Williams
What makes certain sound bites stick with us for decades? Is it the raw emotion, the perfect delivery, or something deeper about human connection? Today's episode dives into this fascinating question with a unique twist.I'm celebrating the incredible June Lockhart's 100th birthday! From her beloved roles in "Lassie" and "Lost in Space" to her surprising progressive activism, June proves herself to be far more than Maureen Robinson. I share a rare 1970 recording where she bravely defended LGBTQ rights when few celebrities would dare, plus Billy Mummy's delightful revelation that this genius-level brilliant woman "loves rock and...
2025-06-26
43 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Decentering Power and Privilege in Real Life: From Parenting to Policy
In this episode of Eyes on Whiteness, we’re exploring what it means to decenter power and privilege—especially in times of overwhelm, urgency, or fear.Maureen invites you into a vulnerable, provocative reflection on how systems like white supremacy and patriarchy teach us to equate control with care—and how that shaping shows up in everyday leadership roles: parenting, teaching, activism, art, nonprofit work, and more.Through honest storytelling and critical inquiry, this episode offers tangible ways to notice our defaults, practice grace instead of guilt, and choose connection over domination. Whether you’re a teache...
2025-06-09
27 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Returning to Integrity: Practicing Accountability Without Shame
In a world that rewards urgency, overwork, and perfectionism, what does it look like to return to ourselves—not through punishment, but through presence?This week, I share a personal story of falling out of alignment with my commitments—not from malice, but from fear, fatigue, and scarcity. I reflect on what it took to course-correct, to soften instead of self-judge, and to rebuild a rhythm rooted in integrity, self-trust, and care.I also explore examples from around the globe—stories of individuals and communities who are embodying integrity in the face of oppression, not throug...
2025-06-03
21 min
Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio
WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS’ DORMITORY (1961) – Episode 204 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
“Our psycho-controls upset the balance of the neuroglandular system, causing incredible distortions in the skin, hair, and teeth. In this state, the patient cannot be saved.” Again with the glands? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they make a reservation for a night with a Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961). Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 204 – Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine...
2025-05-31
1h 21
Eyes On Whiteness
Integrity in the In-Between: Grace, Not Guilt for Justice-Driven Organizations
In this episode, Maureen reflects on the gap so many justice-centered organizations face between what they say they value—and how it actually feels to work inside them.She explores the concept of Intersectional Integrity as a practice—not of perfection, but of presence.You’ll hear reflections on:What it means to lead from alignment rather than collapseHow shame functions as a tool of white supremacy cultureWhy relational accountability begins with honesty about ourselvesMaureen also shares a deeply personal story about her time in these organizations—naming how power, shame, a...
2025-05-26
25 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Introspection as Resistance: A Reflection for Educators in These Times
In this episode of Eyes on Whiteness, Maureen invites educators—teachers, counselors, staff, and school leaders—into a reflection on introspection as a form of resistance.Not resistance through exhaustion or constant urgency.But resistance through honesty. Through pause. Through returning to self.In institutions shaped by white supremacy culture, educators are often expected to perform superhuman care without ever tending to their own needs. Perfectionism. Urgency. Emotional suppression. Compliance. These are not neutral workplace norms—they are expressions of whiteness.This episode offers a different path.You’ll...
2025-05-21
21 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Cultural Resistance: Transmuting Censorship into Collective Creation
Welcome back....again. It´s Season 3! In this return episode of Eyes on Whiteness, Maureen reflects on the global rise in censorship—from banned books and criminalized drag to the erasure of murals and public memory. But this moment is not just political—it’s cultural, spiritual, and creative.Drawing from history and present-day resistance, Maureen shares how artists have long transmuted oppression into beauty, grief into expression, and truth into action. You'll hear powerful examples from across the U.S., Palestine, Brazil, Germany, and beyond—and receive a personal reflection on rest, rhythm, and reclaiming...
2025-05-12
19 min
On The Record
MD veterans healthcare moves vets beyond military sexual trauma
About one in three women in the military -- and one in 50 men -- experience sexual assault or harassment. We hear from Dr. Christine Calmes, a Veterans Administration doctor, about specialized treatment. Then Erica Carpenter and Dr. Paula Smith-Benson, two women vets who overcame the trauma, talk about their experience and how they use their strength to help survivors thrive. Links: MD Veterans Healthcare, Dr. Calmes, head of Military Sexual Trauma program can be reached at 410-637-1231, Veterans Crisis line / call 988 press option 1Do you have a question or comment about a show or...
2023-11-07
26 min
Poured Over
Rachel Joyce on MAUREEN: A HAROLD FRY NOVEL
“Maureen’s journey is about going to the dark — and when you go right into the dark, you then find the light and the kind of renewal — and of all of them, this book felt to me a book about rebirth, which felt the right place to end.” Following The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Rachel Joyce’s Maureen completes her series of novels revolving around a cast of characters that you can’t help but connect with. Whether you’ve read them all or are ready to meet Maureen for the...
2023-02-09
43 min
Booklist's Shelf Care
Episode 26: A Deep Dive into Book Groups
On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Indianapolis (IL) Public Library’s Montoya Barker about all things book group—selecting titles, leading a group, and all kinds of other stuff. Then, Susan chats with Booklist Audio Editor Heather Booth about what she’s reading and loving. Here’s what we talked about: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold Miss Benson’s Beetle, by Rachel Joyce The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendri...
2023-01-30
45 min
Better Under Pressure
#16 - Rachel Joyce - Claim Your Space
In this episode, I’m talking to Rachel Joyce - an award-winning novelist and playwright. Over the course of a 20-year career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl, she was always writing. Alongside radio drama, she also wrote the Sunday Times and international bestsellers, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Her latest novel, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North completes the trilogy. Rachel is also the author of the bestsellers, Perfect, The Music Shop and Miss Benson’s Beetle. Her...
2022-11-10
42 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes on whiteness with Bari Schwartz
Bari Schwartz is a 37 years old Cisgender white Jewish woman who has been rumbling with and doing courageous work around understanding & dismantling systems and impacts of racism for decades. After graduating from Johns Hopkins with a master's degree in school counseling and spending 12 years working in and with Baltimore City Schools as well as local nonprofits serving the youth in Baltimore City. In a bold move Bari chose to leave education for 2 years and accepted a position working with BMe Community an NPO founded by Trabian Shorters one of the nation's thought leaders around asset framing. BMe Community is a...
2022-11-03
1h 08
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes on whiteness with Dohee Lee
Dohee Lee (She/Her) is an artist, Ritualist and Educator. She was born on Jeju Island in South Korea, now, living in Huichin unceded Ohlone territory Oakland, CA as a 1st generation immigrant. Her creative vision comes from traditional Korean music, singing, drumming and dance which is rooted in Korean indigenous ritual. Since her arrival in the US she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She utilizes art to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment – relationships between humans and the land, histories and sto...
2022-10-25
53 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes on whiteness with Sonya Renee Taylor
ANDDDDDD, WE'RE BACK! We're so grateful to kick off part 2 of season 2 with the brilliant and hilarious Sonya Renee Taylor! We have an incredible conversation tracking where in the world is Sonya, how opening up to just listening and being has created space for her ancestors to offer quite an addition to her journey and a deep dig into her take on Intersectional Integrity. We'll leave you with this gem as a teaser: "This is not just about how, how I relate to myself and how I relate to people who have targeted identities, right? It's not...
2022-10-18
1h 03
Outside/In
Yardwork: Gardening is heavy metal
Welcome to Yardwork, a summer yard and garden miniseries from Outside/In. We’re sharing three stories about our relationships with the land around us: the front yard, the backyard, and down the block. This is part two.Sometimes, when Maureen McMurray is digging in her backyard garden, she encounters something she didn’t expect: a lump of coal. She’s planted vegetables in the same soil for a few years now. But as she prepared for an upcoming growing season, she wondered: is her homegrown produce poisoning her family?The answer is nicer than you mi...
2022-08-18
23 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Transmuting Tuesday June 28, 2022
We're coming soon with Part 2 of Season 2!In the meantime, a quick share over here: Diedra and Maureen are going to start a weekly (most of the time) series called Transmuting Tuesdays which will be on our Youtube and Instagram pages. You can expect this series to be a little more impromptu and shorter than the podcast has been. This first one is in response to the Overturning of Roe. YIf you're not following us yet on those channels...come on by! Instagram: @transmutingwspYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT...
2022-06-28
36 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Transmuting After a Tragedy
We want to take a moment to send love, acknowledgment, and presence to you as you process and potentially transmute your experience, understanding, and impact of the racial and political violence of the murders in Buffalo, NY, and Orange County, CA. After the mass murders sitting so heavy on our hearts and in our spirits, Diedra asks Maureen to have a conversation to help make sense of how whiteness and white people often show up after a tragedy where Black people are killed. In order for us to practice Transmuting white supremacy and patriarchy, we c...
2022-05-23
1h 05
Home Base Nation
U.S. Army Veteran & cancer survivor Brandi Benson on her mission to "defeat with purpose"
Today's episode features a conversation with Brandi Benson, U.S. Army veteran and author of the book "The Enemy Within: A Young Soldier's Unexpected Battle with Cancer." Brandi, a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, cancer survivor, and outspoken mental health advocate, was only twenty-four and a few months into her first deployment when she was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, possibly due to toxic exposure while she was deployed. Dr. Ron Hirschberg speaks with Brandi about her beginnings in the military and being forced to return home from war only to have to continue fighting, this time...
2022-05-09
43 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with Derek Canty
"Vulnerability is the core of any self-inward journey....it's been decades of chipping away to get to that vulnerability and to be able to live there. " - Derek CantyDerek Canty is a father of 7, a dedicated partner, a fairy godfather mentor to many and the CEO and founder of Winning Edge, a leadership development company based in Las Vegas. Today, Derek serves as a coach, and trainer for select non-profit organizations and corporations, assisting them in team building, leadership development, and defining/strengthening their organizational culture. He is also a Covid survivor and former c...
2022-01-12
1h 09
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with Dr. Adam Falkner
"Love and healing, real healing, happens at the rupture." - Dr. Adam Falkner, who shall get a t-shirt with this brilliance on it!Join us to listen to this powerful conversation about Adam's takes on Intersectional Integrity! Dr. Adam Falkner is a writer, educator, and race & equity strategist. He identifies as a White Queer Cis Man. He is the author of The Willies (Winner of the 2020 Midwestern Independent Book Award), and his work has been featured on programming for HBO, in The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in...
2022-01-05
1h 16
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with amara tabor-smith
"We are in the apocalypse, give thanks!"- amara tabor-smith in reflecting on the truth being revealed in these times. Join us as amara shares her brilliant perspectives on what Intersectional Integrity is to her. amara tabor-smith (she/her/they/we) is a black, queer woman born and raised on unceded Ramaytush (Rah-MAH-Tush) Ohlone land currently known as San Francisco, and now lives on unceded Huichin (Hoo-Chin) Lisjan (Lih-Shan) Ohlone land currently known as Oakland, CA. She is a choreographer, performance maker, and cultural worker who describes her work as Conjure Art. Her interdisciplinary, site-responsive, p...
2021-12-22
1h 04
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness: We're Back!
In our kick-off for season 2, Diedra and Maureen start with our excitement for the incredible season ahead. We share the theme of this season "What does Intersectional Integrity mean to you?"This episode is the two of us in conversation about what Intersectional Integrity means to us, as we practice the work of Transmuting white supremacy and patriarchy. Listeners get a peek into our current (that day's) thinking of what comes up for us as we think about this concept.What is Intersectional Integrity?Intersectional Integrity: Intentional engagement and relationship development with self (t...
2021-12-15
1h 19
Truer Words
Cassie Gustafson
In the 64th episode of Truer Words, we speak with Cassie Gustafson about writing about sexual assault responsibly, loving dark stories, and Tana French. Cassie can be found on Twitter @cassiegusty and Instagram @cassiegusty. Her website is cassiegustafson.com. Mentioned in this Episode: Djerassi Nova Ren Suma Our episode with Nova Ren Suma World of Our Fathers: The Journey of Eastern European Jews and the Life They Found and Made by Irving Howe Norma Klein Just Friends Margaret The Cinematic Traumas...
2021-07-06
1h 28
The Tea Podcast
Maureen Dugas Foster, Property Manager at the new Bottle Art Lofts
Maureen has a Bachelor and Master of Architecture from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Since 2006 Maureen has worked in architecture firms throughout Louisiana, founded a nonprofit for women in architecture called Designing Women of Acadiana, been the first ever Director of Downtown Lafayette Unlimited, and has recently taken the reins as Property Manager for Lafayette Bottle Art Lofts. She believes designers have the power to lead the way in communicating the importance of positive social and environmentally responsible messages. Maureen is fueled by her passions of creating value through meaningful experiences. As a Lafayette native and lover of Acadiana...
2021-05-14
47 min
Ask a Sustainable Builder
Dan Kolbert – The House as a System, Building Science, Durability & Sustainability
The Guest: Dan Kolbert is the owner of Kolbert Building, a small, longtime building contractor in Portland, Maine. Dan has written for various trade publications, including Fine Homebuilding magazine, and for the past 10 years has been moderator of the original Building Science Discussion Group in Portland, Maine, where the Pretty Good House idea originated. Be sure to watch for the upcoming book he is co-authoring, to be published in 2022. Topics: The house as a system Upcoming book with co-authors Emily Mottram, Michael Maines, Chris Briley Energy efficiency in historic home renovation Energy...
2021-02-14
44 min
Discover The Transformative Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!
Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama by Jim Eldridge
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460927to listen full audiobooks. Title: Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama Author: Jim Eldridge Narrator: Milton Johns, Pat Coombs, Sharon Duce, Richard Beckinsale, Robert Lindsay, Brenda Blethyn, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Richard Beckinsale and Robert Lindsay star in this BBC radio sitcom about a single dad left holding the baby Bryan Archer's girlfriend has run off with the electrician, leaving him to raise their 18-month-old son, Albert, alone. Fortunately, Bryan's mum Pat is around to help out...
2021-01-07
7h 23
Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment
Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama by Jim Eldridge
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama Author: Jim Eldridge Narrator: Milton Johns, Pat Coombs, Sharon Duce, Richard Beckinsale, Robert Lindsay, Brenda Blethyn, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Richard Beckinsale and Robert Lindsay star in this BBC radio sitcom about a single dad left holding the baby Bryan Archer's girlfriend has run off with the electrician, leaving him to raise their 18-month-old son, Albert, alone. Fortunately, Bryan's mum Pat is around to help...
2021-01-07
05 min
Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment
Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama by Jim Eldridge
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama Author: Jim Eldridge Narrator: Milton Johns, Pat Coombs, Sharon Duce, Richard Beckinsale, Robert Lindsay, Brenda Blethyn, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Richard Beckinsale and Robert Lindsay star in this BBC radio sitcom about a single dad left holding the baby Bryan Archer's girlfriend has run off with the electrician, leaving him to raise their 18-month-old son, Albert, alone. Fortunately, Bryan's mum Pat is around to help...
2021-01-07
05 min
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & Parody
Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama by Jim Eldridge
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460927to listen full audiobooks. Title: Albert and Me: The Complete Series 1 & 2: A BBC Radio comedy drama Author: Jim Eldridge Narrator: Milton Johns, Pat Coombs, Sharon Duce, Richard Beckinsale, Robert Lindsay, Brenda Blethyn, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Richard Beckinsale and Robert Lindsay star in this BBC radio sitcom about a single dad left holding the baby Bryan Archer's girlfriend has run off with the electrician, leaving him to raise their 18-month-old son, Albert, alone. Fortunately, Bryan's mum Pat is around to help...
2021-01-07
7h 23
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness, with Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk - "We're not out of this."
In a follow-up to our election episode where we talked about the need to stay vigilant, we invited Christine and Shelly who have been researching the ways White Nationalist and White Supremacist groups have been building in the last few years.Christine and Shelly share their research and analysis of the ways we must be aware of and counter the rise of White Nationalism going into 2021. The deep overlap of groups with varying identities finding common ground across anti-government, pro-police, free-speech, anti-immigrant, and “rigged election” ideologies is terrifying and all rooted in Anti-Blackness. This rise of power of th...
2020-11-18
1h 19
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with guest UnSuk Zucker
UnSuk Zucker is a Korean American cis-gender woman, an amazing advocate, educator, and parent, focused on equity and justice, not only around her but also with a relentless commitment to doing the work within herself. This podcast is filled with raw, heart wrenching and glorious examples modeling vulnerability and transparency as she lives this work as a parent, educator, and professional leader for equity. In this episode, UnSuk talks about: - the challenges and joys of being a parent of a bi-racial son both in an effort to disrupt her own internalized white supremacy and externally in c...
2020-11-11
58 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Whites gonna white. A special election day episode.
Diedra and Maureen spend some time using our tool "Transmuting White Supremacy and Patriarchy" to discuss how this election day is for each of us.Note, it's recorded before we have ANY information and we're as curious as you to see how it lands on the day after the election when you all hear it!Transmuting White Supremacy and Patriarchy, for us, means practicingIntrospection, Self- Awareness, Vulnerability, Transparency, Intersectional Inquiry, and Invoking Collectivism. Join us- what are you noticing in your own reflections?*Note: the origin of "Whites gonna white...." i...
2020-11-04
1h 25
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with guest Dr. JuanCarlos Arauz Pt. 2
We welcome you all back to part 2 of a conversation with Dr. JuanCarlos Arauz, a brilliant educator, facilitator, leader for equity in a reunion, as the three of us realize we haven’t been in the same place in nearly 3 years. We discuss what it might be like to stand in our deepest energy source as one that has the potential to transcend the social construct of our given identities and how that helps us shed the power that hierarchy, boxed identities, compartmentalization can have on us. We focus on remembering that transparency is the enemy of white supremacy, an...
2020-10-28
1h 21
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with guest Dr. JuanCarlos Arauz Pt. 1
Diedra is back! We have a reunion with our dear friend and colleague, JuanCarlos. This is the first of a two-part conversation where we go deep into intersections of our racial and gender identities.In part 1 we explore the depths and interconnections of white supremacy and patriarchy and how they play out in our socially constructed identities and the vulnerable ways we do our intra/interpersonal work and how that is similar and different as a result of our varying experiences in our identities. We dig into how often we can run away from ourselves and the ch...
2020-10-21
1h 19
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On whiteness with guest Roger Bonair-Agard, Pt. 2
In this second part of a powerful discussion with Roger Bonair-Agard, we go deeper into the discussion of transmuting white supremacy and patriarchy within ourselves, each other and in our community. This is a deeply personal conversation that includes a look into our ancestry and the harm that all of us have endured from the atrocities of White Supremacy.We're continuing the exploration of the call to listen within as an act of transmuting white supremacy. Roger shares some powerful stories of incarcerated youth leading critical work in Chicago, fighting how whiteness as perspective defines what...
2020-10-14
59 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes on whiteness with guest Roger Bonair-Agard, Pt. 1
In a two-part conversation, this first episode digs into how whiteness shows up in rules and punitive enforcement of said rules. We grapple with the questions of how you find your authentic self in the struggle against whiteness?how can you consider the journey as a pendulum forward and backward/not left and right and even maybe not a linear line at all?how whiteness can be a resistance to really listening and how ancestors and our bodies speak to us when we do deeply listen?how the belief in the power of choice and agency plays...
2020-10-07
45 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On Whiteness with guest Leidene C. King
Maureen talks with her sister-friend, Leidene King. Leidene is a brilliant educator, facilitator, and healer who delves deep into the ways that she has experienced whiteness in healing and metaphysical spaces as a black woman and the struggle of the concepts of “we are one” and “nothing comes into your life uninvited” when we have such different experiences in the world based on the skin we’re in. She beautifully shares her journey of discovering “who am I?” as the daughter of an African American father and Chinese-American mother born in Hawaii, raised in the black community navigating a sen...
2020-09-30
1h 44
Audio Interference
AI77.1: Archiving Abolition - Survived & Punished
This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. We’re speaking with two members of the New York chapter of the group, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit https://survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/newsletter-store To learn more about Mia Mingus’ work and writings on transformative justice: www.leavin...
2020-09-29
25 min
Audio Interference
AI77.1: Archiving Abolition - Survived & Punished
This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. We’re speaking with two members of the New York chapter of the group, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit https://survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/newsletter-store To learn more about Mia Mingus’ work and writings on transformative justice: www.leavin...
2020-09-29
25 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Eyes On Whiteness with guest Sonya Renee Taylor
Diedra and Maureen talk with Sonya early on in the pandemic. We come right out the gate talking about how ancestors are encouraging Sonya to shower more frequently and how white people not regularly washing their legs surfaces as a confession for Maureen.Sonya joins us from New Zealand and talks about introversion in the time of quarantine, what New Zealand's sustainable and equity centered COVID plan looked like and Diedra yells at Sonya to stop talking this logical nonsense! We talk front line workers and how perspective has shifted, the amount of hours of labor it t...
2020-09-22
1h 19